Mildred Miller
Mildred Miller was an American mezzo-soprano, long associated with the Metropolitan Opera and especially admired in Mahler, Wagner and German repertory.
In the Pristine catalogue she appears in Stiedry’s Metropolitan Opera Parsifal and Bruno Walter’s Das Lied von der Erde.
Miller’s singing combined warmth, steadiness and expressive inwardness, qualities that serve both Wagner’s sacred theatre and Mahler’s late ...
WAGNER Parsifal
Live broadcast performance, 1954
Total duration: 4hr 24:04
Parsifal - Set Svanholm
Kundry - Astrid Varnay
Amfortas - George London
Gurnemanz - Hans Hotter
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
Conducted by Fritz Stiedry
Recorded 18 & 25 April 1960
Total duration: 63:40
Ernst Haefliger tenor
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Bruno Walter conductor
VERDI La Forza del Destino
with rare bonus tracks:
VERDI La Forza del Destino (overture & orchestral excerpts, Dresden, 1926)
VERDI Luisa Miller - Overture (Chicago, 1947)
Live stage recording, 1951
Total duration: 2hr 51:54
Leonora - Walburga Wegner
Alvaro - David Poleri
Carlo - Marko Rothmüller
Guardiano - Bruce Dargavel
Preziosilla - Mildred Miller
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Fritz Busch
